Seattle Street Map Poster

Seattle is squeezed onto a narrow isthmus between salt water and fresh, and its street map tells that story. This printable city map shows the city pinched between Elliott Bay and Puget Sound to the west and Lake Washington to the east, with Lake Union notched into the middle. The downtown grid bends sharply where the original waterfront plat meets the later north-south grid near Pioneer Square — a famous kink that gives the map an unmistakable signature.

That waterbound geometry, with the streets climbing the ridges of Capitol Hill and Queen Anne and the ship canal threading between the lakes, gives a street map of Seattle a layered, hilly character. The minimalist line style keeps the tangle of water and roads legible, and the layout looks especially good in the forest-green and midnight-blue palettes.

It is a fitting print for a Seattleite, a coffee lover, or anyone drawn to the Pacific Northwest. Browse the rest of our United States city maps, or pair it with the Portland map poster for two Northwest cities side by side. Every Seattle city map is a free, high-resolution download, ready to print and frame.